Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:49:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:49:43 -0500 Received: from krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:30480 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:49:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 00:58:17 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-freedrivers? Message-ID: <20030106235817.GI10752@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1041725489.1770.36.camel@sbarn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1050 Lines: 23 On Sun, 05 Jan 2003, Richard Stallman wrote: > Developing programs does not "cost money"--that is just one way to do > it. But sometimes a person is in a position where he can develop a > certain program only if he makes it non-free to raise money. If you > are in such a position, unless you are going to make the program free > software soon after, then the best thing you can do is not develop it > at all. Someone else will develop a free program to do the job. > Freedom is worth the wait. Oh, but my backup can't just wait because the hard disk is likely to die before someone comes up with a free software that does better than Tivoli although this is sorta fragile on the systems I maintain. Are you going to sponsor for RAID-1 for the meanwhile, until the wait pays off? -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/